Poetry Flashcards

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1
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The word “poem”

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Greek word “poíma”, wich means “work”.

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The word poem is derived from:

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The greek word “poieín” wich means “to make”

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What does poetry uses to communicate?

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It uses imaginative and musical language

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What are the elements of poetry?

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Speaker and tone

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Speaker:

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Character that speaks in or narrates the poem

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Tone:

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emotional attitude toward the reader

or toward the subject implied by a poem

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Setting

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time and place in which it occurs, together with all the details used to create a sense of a particular time and place.

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Context

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refers to the conditions in which the

poem occurs

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sensory details

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Poets often use it to create the setting

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How does a setting in the poem is created?

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by using sensory details, or words and phrases that describe how things look, sound, smell, taste, or feel

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In what does the context focuses more?

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It focuses more on the environment of the time and place

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Common types of context

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Cultural and historical

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Figurative language

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writing or speech that is meant to be understood imaginatively instead of literally

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metaphor

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comparison in which one thing is written about as if it were another

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Simile

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comparison that uses lite or as

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Personification

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figure of speech in which an animal, a thing, a force of nature, or an idea is described as if it were human or is given human qualities

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Sight and sound of poetry

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Imagery, rhythm, rhyme

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Imagery

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Uses descriptive language to create a vivid picture in the mind of the reader and to appeal to the senses primarly sight but also sound, touch and taste

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Rhythm

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Pattern of beats or stresses in a line of poetry, it can be regular or irregular

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Rhyme

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Forms of poetry that use the repetition of sounds at the end of words

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Meter

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Regular rhythmic pattern

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Internal rhyme

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Occurs within lines

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End rhyme

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Occurs at the end of lines

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slant rhyme

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Use of words that do not rhyme exactly but have a similar sound

25
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The slant rhyme is also called

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Near rhyme

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Rhyme scheme

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pattern of end rhyme designated by assigning a different letter of the
alphabet to each rhyme

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Poems can be divided into:

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Stanzas, couplet, tercet or triplet, quatrain, quintet or quintain, sestet, septet, octave

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What is the structure of a poem?

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Is how the poem is divided

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Form of the poem

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A single poem most contain numerous recognizable elements. A poem may feature a set pattern of lines or syllables, end rhyme, strong rhythm and specialized sound devices

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Aliteration

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Repetition of initial consonant sounds

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Assonance

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Repetition of vowel sounds, it can create a rhythm or sound pattern in poetry

32
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What can create a rhythm or sound pattern in poetry?

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Assonance

33
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Poetry has many

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Different types of poetry

34
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What is the one thing that poems have in common

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precision of language; each word of a poem is carefully chosen to convey a tone, viewpoint, and perception
of an object or an experience.

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Tone

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emotional attitude toward the reader or toward the subject implied by a literary work

36
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Literary context

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Lyric poems express personal feelings